Ecclesiastes #015 - Learn the Bible Broadcast - Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
Bro. Jonathan D. Judy

Antioch Baptist Church
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G. Cycles of History (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11)
a. The thing that hath been (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
i. Will happen
ii. Has already happened (Ecclesiastes 3:15)
1. The Bible itself teaches that history goes in circles
a. Dress styles of yesterday will again be in style
b. Look at the news today; the Arabs are still fighting the Jews over the land, the world at all cost is trying to create a one-world government (Genesis 11:2-4), There are still false teachers in our day (2 Peter 2:1).
2. Nothing is ever completely new (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)
a. When man is involved:
i. Things go in cycles
ii. It has already happened and will happen again
iii. Man may try and say that he is getting smarter and better (ex: evolution)
iv. Yet in reality this is not true
v. Man is getting further and further from the things of God (ex: mysticism, green earth, oriental religion, and etc.) (Ecclesiastes 7:10)
1. Some examples of man and his “new” things
a. New gods (Deuteronomy 32:17)
b. New cart (2 Samuel 6:1-11; 1 Samuel 6:1-3, 7-8; 7:1)
c. New things spoken (Acts 17:21)
2. Man’s “new” things many times bring bad things with them
b. Yet when God is involved:
i. A new thing (the earth opens) (Numbers 16:30)
ii. A new song (Psalm 40:3; Psalm 149:1)
iii. A new way (Isaiah 43:19)
iv. A new name (Isaiah 62:2)
v. A new spirit (Ezekiel 18:31)
vi. A new testament (Matthew 26:28)
vii. A new tomb (Matthew 27:60)
viii. A new lump (1 Corinthians 5:7)
ix. A new creature (Galatians 6:15)
x. A new man (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10)
xi. A new covenant (Hebrews 12:24)
xii. A new Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2)
c. Please note that the above is not exhaustive.